Brighton. The master plan?

It has to be, although you don’t need to be a genius to realise signing a load of overpaid rubbish with zero sell on value, then sacking the manager mid season after not backing him in the January to give the job to his assistant probably isn’t the way to stay in the premier league.

Hopefully next time around Gibson is kept as far away from the football side of things as possible
 
Why do people say we need to emulate brentford and Brighton . We won a cup and got to a european cup final and spent more years in the prem than them. Our plan was pretty good until gibson made a few bad decisions.
 
Our plan was running at massive losses a year
Exactly. Our plan was having deeper pockets than most other clubs. Which is an advantage we no longer have. We do need a very different plan this time - one which isn't as much of a certainty of success as spending a lot more than other clubs is ever likely to be.
 
Why do people say we need to emulate brentford and Brighton . We won a cup and got to a european cup final and spent more years in the prem than them. Our plan was pretty good until gibson made a few bad decisions.
In those days Brighton and Brentford fans were wondering how they might stay in the football league. At the time they were marvelling at the “Boro model” (local young chairman who loves the area with cash on the hip). Times change, and before we know it, Brentford and Brighton will be rubbish again. Like Swansea are, who were once deemed a “well run club who play good football etc” not long ago. Stoke too. Neither of them made a UEFA Cup final though.
 
The advantage we have is that Gibson cares about the footballing side of things. He's not bothered about making a profit or answering to shareholders.

He's constrained by finances obviously, but his sole goal is success on the pitch whilst not bankrupting us. Hence the first class training complex and the academy.

The downside is that his footballing judgement is highly questionable. This is a man who thought Tony F***ing Pulis was the man to lead a top to bottom review of the club. So for all Gibson's good intentions he does have a tendency to keep shooting himself in the foot.

Seem to be on the right path now, but we should have been set on it years ago. Better late than never I suppose.
 
The advantage we have is that Gibson cares about the footballing side of things. He's not bothered about making a profit or answering to shareholders.

He's constrained by finances obviously, but his sole goal is success on the pitch whilst not bankrupting us. Hence the first class training complex and the academy.

The downside is that his footballing judgement is highly questionable. This is a man who thought Tony F***ing Pulis was the man to lead a top to bottom review of the club. So for all Gibson's good intentions he does have a tendency to keep shooting himself in the foot.

Seem to be on the right path now, but we should have been set on it years ago. Better late than never I suppose.
Your final sentence is the most potent I’d say.

A lot of managerial appointments are simply trial and error, pot luck, especially at our sort of level. We all thought Wilder was great for a time, and although many don’t like to admit it now, there was a time Warnock was hugely popular.

If Gibson ever re-establishes in the PL for a medium-long length of time that will be remarkable. I don’t really see it happening, but if he does, that’s far more than you could ever expect from a chairman.

As things stand he’s someone whose overseen a golden spell that came to an end. That’s all the likes of Brighton and Brentford are as things stand too.
 
As things stand he’s someone whose overseen a golden spell that came to an end. That’s all the likes of Brighton and Brentford are as things stand too.
True, but that's not to say we shouldn't try for another golden spell. And as the other poster suggested, going down the route we are doing now (and a similar approach to these two clubs) seems our best bet currently.
 
Why do people say we need to emulate brentford and Brighton . We won a cup and got to a european cup final and spent more years in the prem than them. Our plan was pretty good until gibson made a few bad decisions.
Our plan at that stage was to outspend most of the league, we don’t even have the funds to do that even in the championship now. For clubs like us, the Brentford/Brighton way is the only way we can operate
 
Your final sentence is the most potent I’d say.

A lot of managerial appointments are simply trial and error, pot luck, especially at our sort of level. We all thought Wilder was great for a time, and although many don’t like to admit it now, there was a time Warnock was hugely popular.

If Gibson ever re-establishes in the PL for a medium-long length of time that will be remarkable. I don’t really see it happening, but if he does, that’s far more than you could ever expect from a chairman.

As things stand he’s someone whose overseen a golden spell that came to an end. That’s all the likes of Brighton and Brentford are as things stand too.
Our golden era was on the back of throwing money at everything, Brighton’s is far more sustainable than what we did and less likely to fail
 
Brighton (Tony Bloom) and Brentford (Matthew Benham) are chaired by mathematicians who made their money from the statistical analysis of sports betting markets. Perhaps Rishi Sunak has a point re more maths education.
 
The luck in signings does run out eventually though, Southampton likely to be the next example of the conveyor belt eventually running dry
Not sure it’s luck TBH. The problem is other clubs start shopping in your market, often with more resources. People will start shopping in Brighton’s market soon enough. In fact they already will be. Liverpool and Chelsea come along and buy all your players and staff. Money is no object to them.

You can plan for 4, 5, 6 or years but it’s very difficult to plan further ahead than that. Brighton are just doing what Swansea did a few years back, us, Stoke, Leicester, etc. Its not luck per se, just things have a shelf life I suppose. Brighton will drop off in the next 3 or 4 years and someone else will be up there.
 
I think only Brentford and Forest are the only clubs in the prem who don't have billionaire owners. Not sure Brighton's model is particularly groundbreaking. Obviously they're well ran but a quick look on transfermarkt (not sure how accurate this is) would suggest the market value of their squad is around £300 million.
 
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